Entry № 8080 · Greek origin

Perictione Perictione — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ peh-ric-tih-OH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Plato's mother (philosopher in her own right)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "plato's mother (philosopher in her own right)".

Perictione (Περικτιόνη) was the mother of the philosopher Plato and a philosopher in her own right — descended through Solon and Critias from the kings of Athens. A treatise on the harmony of women (Peri gynaikos harmonias) and fragments on the duties of women are attributed to a Perictione (possibly her, possibly a later Pythagorean of the same name).

Plato's mother (philosopher in her own right) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Περικτιόνη
Transliteration
Periktiónē
Pronunciation
/ pəˌrɪk.tɪˈoʊ.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Perictione stands.

Perictione does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Perictiones before her.

Real people
Perictione
Plato's mother; Pythagorean philosopher.
5th c. BCE
In fiction
Perictione
Pythagorean fragments.

Names connected to Perictione.

The number behind Perictione.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Perictione reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.